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Post by Bonny on Aug 26, 2014 10:11:37 GMT -5
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Post by The Captain on Aug 26, 2014 10:17:08 GMT -5
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Post by Formerly SK on Aug 26, 2014 10:18:28 GMT -5
For awhile I briefly considered having a photography biz where I shoot pics for realtors so realtors wouldn't have to do it. But then I thought of how many houses are "staged" in MLS listings and didn't think I'd be able to keep my mouth shut.  |
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Post by chiver78 on Aug 26, 2014 10:21:29 GMT -5
I feel way better about my own listing now....and worse b/c mine's still sitting out there. gah. thanks though. I needed a laugh today.  |
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Post by greeniis10 on Aug 26, 2014 10:36:32 GMT -5
Oh my, that wolf on the wall under the "accents" section actually scared me!
I kind of liked the light green Jetson-like furniture in the other picture, but certainly NOT for staging a house.
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Post by Opti on Aug 26, 2014 10:41:34 GMT -5
Ouch, especially number three. My guess is in possibly all three cases the stagers were hampered by what the homeowner was willing to do or not do. |
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Post by CarolinaKat on Aug 26, 2014 11:00:15 GMT -5
The one with the wolf on the wall was scary.
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Bonny
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Post by Bonny on Aug 26, 2014 11:27:00 GMT -5
I kind of liked the light green Jetson-like furniture in the other picture, but certainly NOT for staging a house. In the right situation it COULD work. I think the commenter's point was that the room was so packed those pieces came across as belonging to a garage sale.
I still remember one house I saw 30 years ago that had apple green wall to wall carpeting. Sounds awful but it had a lot of glass and was next to a neighborhood park. It was absolutely beautiful and looked like an extension of the park. Talk about bringing the outside in!
Had the owner taken standard "staging" advice of beige walls and neutral carpeting it would have looked like every other tract house in the neighborhood.
Of course it sold right away and this was back in the days of 18% mortgage rates! 
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Post by Nazgul Girl on Aug 26, 2014 11:44:17 GMT -5
I like the George Jetson room. I wouldn't keep the furniture, but a least I could see the room ! The rest, please, just shoot me.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Aug 26, 2014 12:40:56 GMT -5
OMG, they look like a collector's nightmare on steroids, especially number three!
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Post by happyhoix on Aug 26, 2014 13:35:03 GMT -5
The last time we were looking for a house we toured a place that had big overstuffed furniture, lace dollies everywhere, and giant flowery wallpaper throughout the house. Very fru fru, but spotless. So clean, in fact, that the garage was pefectly empty except for a broom and dust pan. Not even an oil spot on the garage floor. The thing that really got me, though, was that the owner had very carefully wallpapered the lid of the fuse box in the garage with the same big floral wallpaper that the mud room had.
I remember standing there staring at the empty garage with the floral fuse box lid thinking 1) how do you get wallpaper to stick to the metal lid of a fuse box, 2) how do you get wallpaper OFF of a metal fuse box, and 3) why would anyone WANT to wallpaper their fuse box lid?
I could have removed the wallpaper in the rest of the house, but that fuse box lid just creeped me out, for some reason. That plus the backyard was the size of a postage stamp. So we passed on it.
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Post by Apple on Aug 26, 2014 13:45:42 GMT -5
I discovered this site a few years ago(?) www.uglyhousephotos.com/ There are some bad photos there (I noticed a few were used in the post linked above). |
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Post by mmhmm on Aug 26, 2014 13:47:40 GMT -5
Aiyiyiyiyi! Carumba!  |
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Aug 26, 2014 14:42:39 GMT -5
I discovered this site a few years ago(?) www.uglyhousephotos.com/ There are some bad photos there (I noticed a few were used in the post linked above). that's a rabbit hole to fall into. |
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